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Please bear with us as we have launched in beta so you may notice a bug or two. The best thing you can do is let us know right here in the Site Feedback Forum. Have a question or comment regarding the new site? This is your place.

This is not so much a bug as it is a general complaint. I've noticed that the new site seems to take up a lot of bandwidth when I leave multiple GI tabs open.

The way I've noticed this is when I have 4 or 5 tabs open for different threads and I say go to youtube or newgrounds in a new tab , I notice that the the visuals periodically skip when they never have before (I'm using the latest version of firefox and flash BTW). But as soon as I close out some of the GI tabs, suddenly that issue goes away. Is it the "what's happening" feed that tells you about recent posts that's evidently hogging my bandwidth or is it something else?

I guess what I'm really asking is is there a way to reduce how much bandwidth this site takes up or do I just have to put up with it and close some GI tabs down before trying to do watch something online? I like to keep tabs open to remind me to go back to those topics later on because sometimes there's topics that I want to keep tabs on for a little while but I don't want to favorite or subscribe to them.

The points system should be fixed, the status message and game reviews issues should be cleared up today.

If for some reason you don't see the "Write a Review" link at the end of one of our reviews, simply click on the game's title at the top to be taken to the game's page, and there should be an option on the menu on the right (above Buy this game from GameStop) to write a review.

well I'm subscribed to a few of the blogs on here and I don't get notified or anything when new blogs are posted.

'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die.

Well, if you notice in that long string the first thing that gets escaped is the quotation mark. So the quote got changed to an ampersand quot; and then the madness started with changing the ampersands into escaped ampersands.

It'd be like if the word GameInformer had a special meaning, and in the database it gets stored as GI. But unfortunately something is broken and G is also a special character, so it gets replaced with Go. So the original GameInformer, became GI, which became GoI. Eventually this carries on and the G keeps on getting replaced so we get the title GoooooooooooooooooooI.

So, yeah, basically it's a bug where it's escaping the string too many times (for all you CS people).

Well, if you notice in that long string the first thing that gets escaped is the quotation mark. So the quote got changed to an ampersand quot; and then the madness started with changing the ampersands into escaped ampersands.

It'd be like if the word GameInformer had a special meaning, and in the database it gets stored as GI. But unfortunately something is broken and G is also a special character, so it gets replaced with Go. So the original GameInformer, became GI, which became GoI. Eventually this carries on and the G keeps on getting replaced so we get the title GoooooooooooooooooooI.

So, yeah, basically it's a bug where it's escaping the string too many times (for all you CS people).

Ah, that actually does make sense. It starts changing " to &quot; to &amp;quot; to &amp;amp;quot; and then continues until it runs out of space? I see... Could solve this whole thing by just not HTML encoding the title of the thread. I'll pass this back and see what happens.